March 2024
Former top judge Allsop to Hong Kong court
Democracy activists say Australian judges are taking China’s ‘dirty jobs’ after ex Federal Court chief Justice James Allsop joined Hong Kong’s Final Court of Appeal.
June 2022
Why Judith Neilson took back her journo institute
The billionaire lost her conduit to the board of the journalism funder, and its independent directors soon departed.
March 2022
UK judges quit Hong Kong court, citing lost freedoms
Beijing’s imposition of a strict national security law on Hong Kong has put the courts under pressure to uphold the government’s crackdown on dissent.
November 2020
James Wolfensohn the 'Henry Kissinger of banking'
Receiving plaudits from five former prime ministers says something about the value of James Wolfensohn, who has died aged 86.
October 2020
Hong Kong bar pleads with foreign judges to keep serving
Pressure is building on UK judges after Beijing imposed a security law on the territory.
September 2020
More Hong Kong judges tipped to quit over national security fears
The resignation of a prominent Australian judge from Hong Kong's top court has shocked the city's legal community and raised fears others will follow.
James Spigelman leaves Hong Kong's top court
Australian judge James Spigelman has resigned from the territory's high court in what is seen as the latest blow to the city's rule of law.